Election results in Israel: Netanyahu's victory brings the far right to power

 Election results in Israel: Netanyahu's victory brings the far right to power

The far-significant right's rise in popularity during Israel's most recent election had some young religious voters practically dancing for delight.

"Now, everything will be better. They'll be even better when he serves as the minister of public safety "At the headquarters of his campaign, Itamar Ben-ardent Gvir's supporter Julian spoke to me.

"He wants Israel to succeed. He desires the terrorism to cease, "from a settlement in the occupied West Bank, Noam remarked. He continued, "We don't want the Arabs, they throw rocks at us and take our seats in Israel," before a party activist silenced him.

Mr. Ben-Gvir, who was previously found guilty of being a racist in Israel, is currently making an effort to reinvent himself as a more traditional politician.

After the exit poll results were announced on Tuesday night, he declared, "It's time to be the landlords of this country again."

Death to terrorists, an altered version of the chant we frequently heard from his followers, was the main refrain of his cheering throng in Jerusalem.

I am accustomed to covering Mr. Ben-aggressive Gvir's behavior in hotly contested East Jerusalem, as are other journalists. On Israel's Jerusalem Day, I have witnessed him triumphantly leading ultra-nationalist protesters through an area of the Old City that is sensitive for Palestinians.

He caused unrest last month in the volatile neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by waving a gun at Palestinians amid clashes.

He now aims for a victory as co-leader of Religious Zionism, the third-largest party.

End of impasse 

Benjamin Netanyahu grinned broadly as he anticipated his comeback to the Likud party faithful after being violently ousted as prime minister by a large coalition of his opponents one year prior.

He continued, his voice hoarse from days of campaigning, "Power, not weakness" is what the people want from their administration. His fans, using his nick moniker, yelled "King Bibi" in response.

It will also put an end to nearly four years of an unparalleled political impasse if, as anticipated, final election results show that the seasoned leader can now form a solid majority government with his ultra-nationalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish partners.

The corruption allegations against Mr. Netanyahu, who is still on trial, have caused a great deal of division in the nation. He has steadfastly maintained his innocence and charged his rivals with conducting a political witch hunt.

According to pollster Mitchell Barak, "This is a guy who doesn't quit up, no matter how horrible it looks or how badly he was embarrassed by leaving the prime minister's office."

He asserts that Mr. Netanyahu benefited from time passing.

He adds that they might have started to miss the "stability" that Mr. Netanyahu believes he represented: "Those who wanted to punish him, punished him."

decline in eft-wing

Many Israelis still hold a distinct perspective on their nation.

Israelis desired politics "free of vitriol and hostility," according to current interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who spoke to his Yesh Atid (There Is a Future) party in Tel Aviv overnight.

His attempt to form a coalition of parties from the right, the center, the left, and Arab parties was eventually unsuccessful.

Along with an increase in violence, his term coincided with the worst year for Israelis and Palestinians since 2015. However, his government hasn't done anything to find a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

Haggai Mattar, editor of the progressive +972 Magazine, found that disheartening.

The popularity of Israel's left-wing parties has also decreased as a result of these election outcomes.

Mr. Mattar laments, "Israelis on the left now need to take a minute to halt and reflect on how we've come to this state."

He continues, "The left needs a reshuffle or rethink—new mindsets." But it could also be a catastrophic disaster from which we will need a very long time to recover.

But according to Anshel Pfeffer, a journalist for the newspaper Haaretz, the most recent election just highlighted an obvious trend.

He notes that Israel is experiencing an internal identity or cultural war between what some could consider the more liberal and open elements of Israeli society and the more extremist and religious sides of Israeli and Jewish society.

Although it's nothing new, [Mr. Netanyahu] has recently intensified it for political reasons.

I have been following politics in this country for the last ten years, and I have seen a trend to the right that Mr. Netanyahu was able to capture. And it appears that his objective of winning reelection was achieved.

However, now that they have more authority, the ultra-nationalists might be hard to manage.